New Kingdom

Examples of New Kingdom in the following topics:

• The New Kingdom

  • The New Kingdom of Egypt spanned the Eighteenth to Twentieth Dynasties (c. 1550-1077 BCE), and was Egypt's most prosperous time.
  • The New Kingdom followed the Second Intermediate Period, and was succeeded by the Third Intermediate Period.
  • The New Kingdom saw Egypt attempt to create a buffer against the Levant and attain its greatest territorial extent.
  • New Kingdom Egypt would reach the height of its power under Seti I and Ramesses II, who fought against the Libyans and Hittites.
  • The last "great" pharaoh from the New Kingdom is widely regarded to be Ramesses III.

• Nubia

  • During the New Kingdom of Egypt, Nubia (Kush) was an Egyptian colony, from the 16th century BCE.
  • With the disintegration of the New Kingdom around 1070 BCE, Kush became an independent kingdom centered at Napata in modern central Sudan.
  • The Nile valley empire was as large as it had been since the New Kingdom.
  • New prosperity revived Egyptian culture.
  • Religion, the arts, and architecture were restored to their glorious Old, Middle, and New Kingdom forms.

• The Middle Kingdom

  • The Middle Kingdom was a period of Egyptian history spanning the Eleventh through Twelfth Dynasty (2000-1700 BCE), when centralized power consolidated a unified Egypt.
  • Amenemhet I never held the absolute power commanded, in theory, by the Old Kingdom pharaohs.
  • This instituted a practice that would be used throughout the Middle and New Kingdoms.
  • The reign of Amenemhat III was the height of Middle Kingdom economic prosperity, and is remarkable for the degree to which Egypt exploited its resources.
  • Describe the various characteristics of Sensuret III's rule during the height of the Middle Kingdom

• The Legacy of Alexander the Great

  • Four stable power blocks emerged following the death of Alexander the Great: the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, the Seleucid Empire, the Attalid dynasty of the Kingdom of Pergamon, and Macedon.
  • The Ptolemaic Kingdom was a Hellenistic kingdom based in Egypt ruled by the Ptolemaic dynasty, starting with Ptolemy I Soter’s accession to the throne following the death of Alexander the Great.
  • Early in the Ptolemaic dyansty, Egyptian religion and customs were observed and magnificent new temples were built in the style of the old pharohs.
  • It became the capital of a new kingdom of Pergamon, which Philetaerus founded in 281 BCE, thus beginning the rule of the Attalid dynasty.
  • The Kingdom of Macedon at the death of Philip II (336 BCE)

• Ancient Egyptian Culture

  • The Middle Kingdom was a golden age for ancient Egypt, where arts, religion and literature flourished.
  • Two major innovations were block statues and new forms of literature.
  • The Middle Kingdom (2134 - 1690 BCE) was a time of prosperity and stability, and resurgence of art, literature and architecture.
  • Two major innovations were the block statue and new forms of literature.
  • However, some Middle Kingdom literature may have been transcriptions of the oral literature and poetry of the Old Kingdom.

• The Old Kingdom

  • The Old Kingdom is the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods that mark the high points of civilization in the Nile Valley.
  • During this time, a new type of pyramid (the step) was created, as well as many other massive building projects, including the Sphinx.
  • Additionally, trade became more widespread, new religious ideas were born, and the strong centralized government was subtly weakened and finally collapsed.
  • The king (not yet called Pharaoh) of Egypt during this period resided in the new royal capital, Memphis.
  • Explain the reasons for the rise and fall of the Old Kingdom

• The Kingdoms of Madagascar

  • They took on divine status and new nobility and artisan classes were created.
  • At about that time, the empire started to split, resulting in a southern kingdom (Menabe) and a northern kingdom (Boina).
  • In 1712, he forced the Tsikoa to flee and was elected king of all the Betsimisaraka and given a new name, Ramaromanompo ("Lord Served by Many") at his capital at Foulpointe.
  • The Merina kingdom reached the peak of its power in the early 19th century.
  • Identify some of the kingdoms that ruled on Madagascar before the arrival of Europeans.

• The Fall of the Han and the Three Kingdoms Period

  • China splintered into three kingdoms ruled by warlords; this marks the beginning of the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.
  • These three kingdoms, Wei, Shu, and Wu, battled for control in a long series of wars.
  • Wei mechanical engineer Ma Jun invented a hydraulic-powered, mechanical puppet theatre designed for his emperor, a new irrigation device, and the south-pointing chariot, and a non-magnetic directional compass.
  • The Three Kingdoms in 262 CE after the fall of the Han dynasty.
  • Demonstrate the significance of the Battle of the Red Cliffs and the Three Kingdoms Period

• The Reconquista

  • In 739, a rebellion in Galicia, assisted by the Asturians, drove out Muslim forces and it joined the Asturian kingdom.
  • The Kingdom of Asturias became the main base for Christian resistance to Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula for several centuries.
  • After his son's death, the caliphate plunged into a civil war and splintered into the so-called "Taifa Kingdoms."
  • The Taifa kingdoms lost ground to the Christian realms in the north.
  • Nevertheless, all those deemed to be "New Christians" were perpetually suspected of various crimes against the Spanish state including continued practice of Islam or Judaism.

• The Anglo-Saxons

  • By 660 the political map of Lowland Britain had developed with smaller territories coalescing into kingdoms, from this time larger kingdoms started dominating the smaller kingdoms.
  • This explains why dynasties waxed and waned so quickly, a kingdom was only as strong as its leader-king.
  • The major kingdoms had grown through absorbing smaller principalities and the means through which they did it and the character their kingdoms acquired as a result are one of the major themes of the Middle Saxon period.
  • Almost no poem from before the Norman Conquest, no matter how Christian its theme, is not steeped in pagan symbolism and their integration into the new faith goes beyond the literary sources.
  • Thus the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons was not just their switching from one practice to another, but making something new out of their old inheritance and their new belief and learning.